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Re: 21.1: list-charset-chars
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: 21.1: list-charset-chars |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:38:59 +0200 |
> From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:17:35 +0100
> >
> > What led you to believe that ASCII characters with codes below 128
> > belong to the other charsets? Whatever gave you that impression is
> > the place where the documentation should be improved, because ASCII
> > characters are a separate charset in Emacs.
>
> I don't have a v21 Emacs at hand in the moment, but a ISO 8859 15
> charset is a superset of US-ASCII
Not in Emacs, it isn't. The full name of latin-iso8859-15 in Emacs
is this:
"Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 9 (ISO/IEC 8859-15): ISO-IR-203."
See mule-conf.el for more information. The ``right-hand part'' thing
means that characters below 128 are not included.
What I'm asking is where would you suggest to explain this
fundamental fact so that it becomes clear.
> "list charset chars": What else than listing the characters in the
> charset could be expected?
It does list all the characters that belong to the charset. It's
just that you assumed 7-bit ASCII to be part of the charset, while
in fact it isn't.